Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 231 Decisive Battle!The emperor is with you!
In fact, there are not many Ming soldiers who are as good at martial arts as Chen Huacheng, especially veteran elites like the Ming Army's Guards Regiment, Army 1 Brigade, and Dragoon 7 Brigade.

Although the Ming army is now downplaying the geographical attributes of each brigade.

But because of the popularity of "Mandarin".

If the Guangfu soldiers from Guangdong who shouted "Du Lei Lou Mu" and the Jiangxi soldiers who shouted "Poke your mother", if they had never learned official dialect, they might not understand what they said to each other.

Therefore, at this stage, the geographical attributes of each brigade are still very strong.

The 1st Army Brigade was formed based on the Chaoshan dock workers in Batam, so almost all the 1st Army Brigade were "Thaoshan Warriors".

The three brigades of the Guard Corps were composed of "Hakka warriors" formed by the fellow villagers of Emperor Zhu's Jiaying Prefecture.

Since the 7th Dragoon Brigade is a team composed of elite hunters mobilized from various brigades, the source is very complicated, but Hakka, Chaoshan, and Jiangxi soldiers account for the majority.

Several brigades of the Northern Expedition were recruited from Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

The Liaodong Corps was formed by poor people from Liangjiang to participate in the formation of the Liaodong Army.

This is a very common phenomenon in ancient times and even in modern times - otherwise soldiers would not be able to communicate with each other, and it would be difficult for officers to upload and issue orders, wouldn't it be too much delay.

And now, if we say that the most powerful institution of "Pushing" is the Ming Dynasty Navy, this is because the Navy has higher technical content than the Army, and the literacy rate is relatively higher. "Hongwu Zhengyun" has more people using the official "Mandarin" - this kind of official language actually has some accent differences from later generations of Mandarin, but modern people can basically understand it as long as they know Mandarin.

Therefore, the soldiers of the 7th Dragoon Brigade, which are mainly Hakka, Chaoshan, and Jiangxi, are generally not as tall as the Eight Banners soldiers whose ancestral home is in the Northeast.

Moreover, strictly speaking, the Eight Banners soldiers are also feudal landlord soldiers, with hereditary Lutian and hereditary military status.

Although the guy in his hand is uniformly distributed by the above.
But the clothes on his body were made by himself.

It's just that the colors are uniform.

So some Eight Banners soldiers are a set of cloth cotton armor.

Some are lined with iron sheets inside the cotton armor to strengthen defense.

Moreover, many Eight Banners soldiers have inherited martial arts from their ancestors.

In terms of hand-to-hand combat, these Eight Banners soldiers who have more or less practiced fighting skills, are also taller, and some of them wear cotton armor lined with iron sheets are obviously more advantageous.

Therefore, on the side of the Ming army, the middle and low-level legions are the same as the cuirassier brigade, equipped with six bursts of Guangfu two-year-style revolvers.

When encountering hand-to-hand combat, he directly took out his pistol and shot six bullets out.

You can gain the upper hand in a flash - the key to hand-to-hand combat is not only the strength and martial arts of soldiers, but also the formation and momentum.

And the soldiers of the Ming army who immediately gained the upper hand in momentum.

In such hand-to-hand combat, it is a big advantage.

not to mention.

Except for pistols.

Every Ming soldier has a hand grenade hanging on his chest.

The cables of this kind of grenade are hung on the belt, which can be thrown directly by pulling it down.

Bayonet against enemies with pistols and lanyard grenades.

But it really takes a lot of courage.

Such skirmishes quickly came to fruition.

The soldiers of the 7th Brigade of Dragoons of the Ming Army with better equipment and higher morale won the battle for the frontier stronghold.

And right now.

The frontier formations of both sides have also advanced to their positions.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was even better, so they passed the four villages, and the front support artillery, front command post, and front military medical center could all be arranged based on these four villages.

In the afternoon, just after Shen Shi.

It was originally very lively, but the continuous exchange of fire between small groups of infantrymen at the front of the two sides, and the sound of mutual bombardment of artillerymen from both sides stopped.

The battlefield seemed to suddenly enter a strange silence.

in the air.

The extremely suppressed tense atmosphere before the decisive battle permeated.

Both watch cars moved forward for two miles, and they met for ten miles to confront each other.

The yellow dragon banner of the Qing court.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixinjueluo Hongli, and Emperor Qianlong, who was over 8 years old, personally boarded the lookout car, holding a glass lens telescope produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which cost more than [-] taels of silver, and scanned the Ming army. front.

The width of the front line of the Ming army reached five or six miles.

From the Xinhe River in the north, it spreads to the end of the mountain near Zhulong Mountain in the south.

At this time, after their big formation.

The stronghold composed of four villages was arranged so that water could not enter.

A large number of engineers are digging trenches and laying barbed wire.

If nothing else.

The Ming army planned to use these four strongholds as the support of the frontier battlefield to launch a fierce attack forward.

"Your Majesty, seeing the movement of the Ming army, it should be that the first wave of attacks is about to be launched before dark."

Fukang'an is also watching the Ming army's actions.

Those sappers moved quickly.

It seems to be rushing to work.

at this rate.

They are afraid that they will be able to build a forward position if they work another hour.

And then it was time for the Ming army to launch an offensive.

Behind the Ming army formation.

The logistics soldiers dressed in various colors are busy, and the most eye-catching ones are "Dai Xiaobing" in white mandarin jackets and white hats.

"That's a medical soldier from the Ming army, Mr. Ambassador."

Facing inquiries from the British ambassador, George Staunton.

A general of the Qing army explained.

"Medical Corps"

George Staunton held up his binoculars and continued to observe this army, which was said to be the most elite army in the Ming Empire.

His first feeling was.
specialized!

too professional.

This army is like a huge machine.

Everyone seems to be just a screw in this machine.

Everyone is busy with their own affairs, forming a chilling beast of war.

George Staunton lowered his binoculars.

He looked at the Eight Banners soldiers around him.

Okay
The number of Eight Banners soldiers is sufficient.

This is the only advantage.

"Your Majesty, they are now waiting for the artillery movement to come up!"

Fukang'an reminded.

The so-called long illness becomes a good doctor.

Fukang'an is also a bit like a long-lost general now.

The Ming army's previous series of scrambles was to seize "potential".

Occupy the frontier stronghold, spread out the front, the artillery moves, and the wings spread.

These are preparatory movements before the decisive battle.

And the real killing move.

It's the coming artillery bombardment!
Zhu Daohua also boarded the watch car at this time.

The Great Tomorrow Sun and Moon Flag and the Red Dituanlong Flag which symbolizes the Great Tomorrow.

Zhu Daohua held up a telescope made by Jiangning Glass Factory to look at the Qing army's position in the distance.

The performance of the telescope in his hand is actually similar to the one in Qianlong's.

However, the manufacturing price is much cheaper - this is the standard telescope of the Ming army, and it was finalized through bidding in the second year of Guangfu.

The Jiangning Glass Factory that won the bid is a joint venture between businessmen surnamed Gu and Qu from Liangjiang.

It is one of the first batch of modern chemical plants in Liangjiang.

In terms of performance, although it is not the best among bidding products.

But relying on low cost to win the bid.

The production power of government-run handicraft industries such as the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Internal Affairs comes from the pressure of superior officials, which makes such handicraft factories less sensitive to costs. High quality product.

But the biggest feature of this kind of government-run enterprise is the high cost-even in the most ideal situation, for example, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs He Shen and the adults have nothing to do. Great Eight Banners officials served by the Qing Dynasty.

But it can't hold back the waste produced by the artisans below in order to meet the output and quality indicators - because for the artisans, the output and quality affect their own heads, and the cost is not something they need to consider at all, and the officials above will not How to think about things.

On Daming's side, the Jiangning Glass Factory that won the bid is a factory run by private businessmen.

They naturally want to make money, consider profits, and consider the balance between performance and the market. They are naturally more motivated to adopt new technologies in an attempt to reduce costs.

This results in telescopes with comparable performance.

On the Qing side, it is a work of art used by the emperor.

That is really a carved dragon with a phoenix attached, so exquisite.

On Daming's side, it is a standard product distributed to middle and senior military officers.

No carving, no artistic processing.

It's just a brass tube with lenses.

Full of the beauty of industrial simplicity - highlighting a simplicity.

However, the purchase price was only one-twentieth of the imperial telescope in the hands of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty-equivalent to the price of 40 taels of silver.

But at this time, it was in the field of vision of this Daming army-standard telescope purchased at a purchase price of eight yuan in Ming Yuan.

What Zhu Daohua, son of the Great Tomorrow, saw was a completely changed Eight Banners Legion.

Although their clothing still retains the tradition of the Eight Banners.

Cotton armor of various colors is draped over the body, and there are officers wearing iron helmets with lightning rods on their heads.

Flags also split columns by color.

But the tactics they adopted, and even the equipment.

But it is obviously imitating the Ming army.

"Qianlong is much stronger than his grandson." Zhu Daohua muttered in a low voice.

But he is the Son of Heaven now, and he doesn't look at the problem as superficially as before.

Qianlong was able to toss out the Great Eight Banners established by the Ming army.

The fundamental reason is that the Qing Dynasty still has money in its hands. First, the finances before the Qing Dynasty did not collapse, and there were silver deposits in the treasury. Second, Qianlong’s ability to make money was better than that of Daoguang, so he had the money to build the Great Eight Banners. .

The situation Daoguang faced was due to the outflow of silver due to the import of opium. Several wars to suppress peasant uprisings in the previous dynasty exhausted the financial reserves of the Qing Dynasty.
No money.

Even if Li Shimin is reborn, he can't handle it.

Of course.

If Li Er sat in Daoguang's position, he would definitely do everything possible to make money from the beginning.

"Qianlong seems to have made a lot of progress. His Big Eight Banners look quite decent. If he doesn't weaken him, when the Qing court flees to the Western Regions in the future, even the Pingxi Fan will not be their opponents!"

Tao Biquan said with a smile: "But what he met was the emperor, and his big eight banners are not enough."

Zhu Daohua smiled: "Naturally, his Big Eight Banners are similar in appearance but not in spirit. Have the cannons moved up?"

"It's in place!"

Tao Biquan took out his pocket watch.

"According to the plan, the bombardment will be launched at the third quarter of Shenshi, and after an hour, the first wave of infantry attacks will launch an assault!"

"it is good!"

Zhu Daohua turned around and got off the lookout car.

"Push my banner to the front and tell my soldiers that their emperor is with them!"

(End of this chapter)